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Appendix: Miscellaneous 1509

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Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 6, 1555-1558. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1877.

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Miscellaneous 1509

Jan. 27. Council of Ten “Misti,” Register 32, p. 64. Venetian Archives. 74. Embassy to England at the time of the League of Cambrai.
Motion made in the Council of Ten and Junta by the Chiefs Sebastian Contarini, Lorenzo Priuli, and Francesco Bragadino.
Put to the ballot, that considering what had been declared about the security and defence of our State, there be elected forthwith a noble of ours to go secretly and with all speed to the King of England, at the expense of our Government, with such commission as shall seem most expedient to this Council.
Ayes, 26; noes, 3; neutral, 0.
Elected, Hironimo Giustinian (son of the late Ser Antonio), who declined.
[Latin.]